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Google to announce mobile platform Monday; target: iPhone?
2007-11-04 21:17:00
Google negotiators this weekend continue to hammer out agreements with wireless carriers, handset makers, software developers and hardware providers, as the company prepares to announce on Monday an ambitious platform for creating mobile applications. Although Google has declined to comment for months on its rumored move into the mobile space, sources said the company will make an announcement Monday at 11 a.m. EST, and that details of the plan are being finalized this weekend.Google will announce an open source development platform for mobile applications that will contain a full set of components, including an operating system, a set of common APIs, a middleware layer, a customizable user interface and even a mobile browser, sources said. Instant messaging standard protocols will also be supported. The platform is intended to simplify the process of creating and deploying mobile applications, so that an application can be built once and be compatible with multiple phones. On the p...
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Researcher: Leopard's Firewall is a Mess
2007-11-04 21:06:00
The launch of Apple's newest OS, Leopard, has been, to say the least, tinged with negative press, what with reports of bluescreens due to third party applications and Java incompatibilities. On Friday, Rich Mogull, a security consultant and former Gartner analyst, added more fuel to the fire when he said "[Leopard's] firewall is a mess" after spending two days digging into the new firewall's capabilities. "It's a step back from Tiger's firewall. I was originally pretty bullish on Leopard's security, and I still am on the concepts, but the implementation makes most of its advances ineffective or unusable."The firewall in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard uses a bare-bones interface -- earlier this week, Mogull called it "so simple as to be nearly useless" -- that offers users three options: allow all incoming connections, block all incoming connections, and set access for specific services and applications Unfortunately, the implementation seems fraught with problems. "'Block all' does s...
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Facebook Hack: Transfer and Add Friend Invites Sent to Alternative Email Ad
2007-11-04 20:54:00
Chances are over the cause of time you have used many email addresses to communicate with friends, such as those given by your school, college or company, or even some age-old e-mail addresses that you no longer used as you prefer new e-mail address as preference changes. It’s also highly likely you only want to register one Facebook account with your main email address so that you can connect with all your friends, ex or current coursemates, colleagues and family members from one place.So now what if you receive an invitation from somebody to add you as a friend on Facebook, however, the invitation request is sent to your other email address, which is not the email used to register Facebook. The cases like this is not unexpected, as your old or alternative email addressees different from the one in Facebook may reside in friends’ address books or contact list as Facebook retrieves the email to automatically send you invitation to join.Hearing from friends especially some long l...
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"Time" declares iPhone as invention of the year
2007-11-03 18:37:00
Oh! I am definetly surprised! iPhone is cool but there are better things invented this year. Apple's "love it," "hate it" or "hack it to pieces" iPhone is Time 's "Invention Of the Year ," !Invention of the year that was unlocked by a 17-year-old teenager, needs $0.99 to set a ringtone of favorite song, can only be used legaly on AT&T network, expensive and has nothing to offer better than many other phones except its so called icandy interface and iPod music. Is it invention of year because more than 1.4 million iPhones were sold? ...does it helps to make our lives really better than before? (except playing with icons and listening to iPod quality Music). What about OLPC?What Lev Grossman of Time wrote is ...Stop. I mean, don't stop reading this, but stop thinking what you're about to think. Or, O.K., I'll think it for you: The thing is hard to type on. It's too slow. It's too big. It doesn't have instant messaging. It's too expensive. (Or, no, wait, it's too cheap!) It...
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Wateen Telecom's Wi-Max still pending to launch :@
2007-11-01 19:17:00
I called Wateen Telecom today (They said last month that they will launch Wi-Max after 30 October) and still they say it is delayed due to some technical reasons! :@ man! what are they doing? They are putting thier advertisements everywhere for a service that is being delayed and delayed. Since last 4 months, they are saying "we are expecting to launch it in this month!" And today they did same when I called them.Thier website is showing off all the time"With more than 10,000 registered customers in 20 days and the count still going strong ..."But guyz where is the Service?... I am waiting for this service from last 4 months and using a slow internet connection hoping that I will upgrade soon with it!...its a frustration for highly intrested costumers of Wateen and some friends of mine ended up thier patience with an alternative broadband connection and they say they are not going to shift to Wateen's (even if it offers better) for next 6 Months.Expectations for Wateen is to bring ...
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DirectX 10.1 in Windows Vista SP1 – The Evolution
2007-11-01 14:43:00
As Windows Vista brought to the table the exclusive Dire ctX 10, the first service pack for the operating system will evolve Microsoft's graphics technology to version 10.1. DirectX 10.1 is already available to over 12,000 testers via the first beta of Vista Service Pack 1, concomitantly with the official release of Build 6001.16659. Although the testing milestones of Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP SP3 Beta, are officially limited in terms of access, a hack is available designed to permit the download of Windows Vista SP1 Beta Build 6001.16659 straight from Microsoft, and simultaneously test drive DirectX 10.1. However, Vista users have to understand that DirectX 10.1, as well as DirectX 10 is a technology intimately connected with the underlying graphics card, such as the upcoming ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series. According to an AMD whitepaper focused on the implementation of DirectX 10.1 in the ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series, the latest application programming interface from Micro...
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Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta Free Download
2007-11-01 14:38:00
This new version has a whole new look and feel, along with some great new features that make it well worth the upgrade. Here’s a quick look at what’s new in Yahoo ! Messenger 9.0 Beta :- A whole new look for your contact list. Keep it in detail view to see larger Avatar images for your friends, or switch to compact list view (in the Contacts menu). Plus, you can just hover and click to IM, SMS or call a friend.- Brand new skins and emoticons! Click the dot near the top of your Messenger window to choose a skin, and check the emoticon menu for the new ones that were inspired by user entries in our Emoticontest earlier this year (more on our winners in a future post).- New Flickr integration in the photo sharing feature. Easily share photos from your Flickr.com account, or save photos shared with you directly to Flickr.- A new in-line media player that makes it easy to view maps, photos and videos from sites like Yahoo! Video and YouTube right in the IM window. No plug-ins needed, n...
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Google Goes OpenSocial to Trump Facebook
2007-11-01 14:22:00
Google will officially join the club of social software development platform providers Nov. 1, when it unveils a set of application programming interfaces that will allow programmers to write social applications that will work on LinkedIn, Friendster and other social networking sites.OpenSocial is designed to help programmers build applications that reach more of the 400 million users of social networks than they would under the original open developer model, Google product manager Joe Kraus told eWEEK Oct. 31.The Mountain View, Calif., search vendor's initiative is an answer to the launch of Facebook 's highly successful developer platform, on top of which 7,000 applications have been built since the social networking site launched it May 24.Google is going the extra mile by enabling programmers to write applications for multiple social networks under three APIs, which will offer access to a user's profile and their friends, and the ability to let their friends know that activiti...
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Jason D says about poor iPod touch battery life
2007-10-25 22:10:00
I’m always leary of manufactures claims of battery life, my rule of thumb is to cut what the manufacturer says in half.Apple claims that the iPod touch gets “up to” 22 hours of audio playback time and “up to” 5 hours of video playback time when fully charged according to Apple’s iPod touch Tech Specs page.Many users have been complaining of significantly lower battery runtimes with the touch.Here’s an example:I purchased an iPod Touch (16 gig) last week. I have been waiting for iPhone service in my area, but waiting is painful.I am really disappointed with the battery life and standard features of the iPod Touch. Battery life is totally unacceptable. After 3 to 4 hours of listening to podcasts I got the warning that 20% of the battery remained.After a fully recharge I attempted to play a 2 hour movie (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). The touch made it through about 1 hour and 50 minutes then the battery crapped out. None of these times are close to Apple’s estima...
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LifeSize unveils low-cost HD video-conferencing solutions
2007-10-25 18:16:00
LifeSize Communications was the first company to release an HD conferencing solution which I covered at Interop Las Vegas spring 2005. Now at Interop fall 2007 in New York, it appears that LifeSize has again rocked the video conferencing world by releasing 720p HD products at half the price of competing 720p solutions. The LifeSize Express sells for less than $6K and is cheaper than many standard definition video conferencing solutions. The new LifeSize Telepresence solution can be built for a quarter of the cost of competing Video Telepresence solutions.Pictured to the left is the newest low-cost LifeSize Express 720p HD video conferencing solution. It will ship tomorrow on 10/23/2007 and it has an MSRP of $5,999 which is nearly half the price of competing 720p HD conferencing solutions on the market. The LifeSize Express has dual-input capability and it has HDMI input and output which carries audio. The 720p codec in this model is limited to 1.5 mbps. The $5,999 price comes with m...
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Nokia and Reuters develop an N95-based "Mobile Journalism Toolkit"
2007-10-25 13:56:00
The rise of the cameraphone has certainly changed the face of journalism, and old-guard wire service Reuters isn't about to get passed by -- the company has entered into a long-term partnership with Nokia to develop new mobile reporting technologies, and the two companies have recently completed trials of an N95-based "Mobile Journalism Tookit" that takes moblogging to a whole new level.So what is in the Mobile Journalism Toolkit ? First of all the phone. This is a Nokia N95 which now comes in three different versions. The original European version that we used for most of the trial (image on left). Then there is a the US edition which adds more memory and support for US carrier frequencies. Finally there is the news 8GB version which can store much more music and videos, and for our journalists more raw materials. The next part of the toolkit are the peripherals. A key component was the bluetooth keyboard that we used. This made it much easier to enter text-based stories in the fie...

Samsung reveals first 30-nm 64Gb NAND chip -- and a bit of skin
2007-10-24 21:35:00
We're not sure what's more impressive here: the fact that Samsung has produced the world's first 30nm-class 64Gb (bit, not byte!) NAND chip or that they're now roping defenseless product waifs into hawking their silicon wafers. Nevertheless, we're looking at a serious jump in density in just 10 months. A maximum of 16 of the new chips can be combined for cost-effective 128GB (byte, not bit!) MLC NAND-based flash cards used primarily for data storage. Sammy's faster SLC based flash cards will still be the preferred choice when speed is of the utmost priority and cost isn't an issue. As such, Samsung also announced a 32Gb SLC NAND chip based on the same SaDPT (Self-aligned double patterning technology) manufacturing process. Sadly, we'll have to wait until 2009 for production to begin. Still, he looks happy dontchathink? Source: Mydigitallife
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Western Union Cooperate With GSM Association To Launch Global Mobile Cash T
2007-10-24 21:08:00
The US-based financial services and communications company, Western Union and GSM Association (GSMA) have jointly announced their plan to develop a system that would allow consumers to transfer money/cash across international borders via just a mobile phone. It’s a very cool and convenient commercial cash transfer service based on “Mobile Wallet” technology!“Mobile networks now cover more than 80 percent of the world’s population and 3 billion people1 have a mobile phone, creating an unprecedented opportunity to extend the benefits of financial services to the majority of the world’s families for the first time,” said Rob Conway, CEO of the GSMA. “Mobile money transfers are a key driver in the development of a potentially vast market for financial services delivered via the mobile phone.”“Western Union has a long tradition of innovation,” said Western Union President and CEO Christina Gold. “Our focus on the mobile money transfer space is an important step in...
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Microsoft indirectly announces next Windows Mobile version for the first ti
2007-10-24 20:36:00
Apparently this new Windows Mobile version - probably 6.1 - will be released early next year (i.e. 2008) and it is needed to use "System Center Mobile Device Manager" server product. This new version of Windows Mobile has been publicly and explicitly mentioned for the first time during the webcast about the System Center Mobile Device Manager. By the way of this announcement also Samsung BlackJack II smartphone - with GPS (!) - has been announced. More info:Responding to customer needs beyond mobile e-mail and calendaring, Microsoft introduced the Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, a new mobile-dedicated server solution that helps companies manage Windows Mobile phones similar to Windows-based laptops and PCs. With Mobile Device Manager, companies can deliver new applications to phones over the air as well as connect people via Mobile VPN (virtual private network) with security-enhanced access to critical data such as expense reports or customer information.Microsof...
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Right word for PTCL
2007-10-23 21:52:00
I tried "Phone n Net" service of PTCL but It never connected. When number 131777777 is dialed a voice says"your telephone service doesnt offer this service u have requested!"...wht the...!!!the FAQ's at PTCL's site already say "The Phone ‘n’ Net facility is pre activated on all PTCL telephone numbers. You just have to dial 13177777 to be connected to Internet."But...?Hina Aman (a colleague of mine) has discovered a right word for PTCL. Just turn on T9 (Dictionary) on your cell phone and type PTCL... U will get the right word (try it to laugh :D)
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Free Download Manager (FDM)
2007-10-22 10:16:00
Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. Using this software product you can easily download a list of files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. With FDM the downloading process will be as easy as never before. FDM is a light-weight, powerful and easy-to-use application. Also this software product is well-known for its intuitive and user-friendly interface. FDM can function as a site manager, accelerator, site explorer and scheduler. FDM can resume broken downloads. So you needn't start the downloading process from the very beginning after casual interruption. You can resume unfinished download from the moment when it was interrupted. Also this program warns you if resuming isn't supported by the servers. It allows you to make a decision about the downloading. So with FDM you save your time and money. FDM allows adjusting traffic usage. So it provides you with an opportunity to browse web pages much faster if ...
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PTCL Introduces "Phone n Net": Dialup internet for everyone!
2007-10-18 15:41:00
PTCL has introduced "Phone n Net" services that has started offering dialup internet to all costumersPTCL says "Phone’n’Net offers lot more convenience and efficient services with no hassle of opening an account or buying scratch card forced usage, Prepaid services and so much other hassles.Whereas Phone’n’Net offers convenience at its best. If you want to use Internet just dial 13177777 and get connected. The usage will be billed through your telephone bill. It will be charged on per minute basis"Following are features of this service*Direct internet Access*No scratch card needed*Balance never finishes*No Expiry or forced usage*Don't have to pay up-front*Flat rate of Rs. 0.10/min. (conditions apply). Hourly charges are Rs. 6/hour*Code barring to restrict internet access*Available on all landlines. Currently available in Khi, Lhr, Isb and coming soon across Pakistan.*You will be able to connect from any PTCL landline number. The only difference is that the charges will be b...
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Samsung shows water-powered Mobile Phone batteries
2007-10-18 13:51:00
In 2010 your mobile phone may be powered by water. During the 2007 Korea Electronics Show. Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced that it has developed a micro-fuel cell and hydrogen generator that runs on H2O.And it even showed a working prototype of the new "Micro Fuel Cell" which works with the Korean version of the Samsung SGH-i600 (I wouldn't mind to test it as well). According to Samsung, the micro-fuel cell can generate up to three watts of electricity which is enough to be used in mobile devices. The new fuel cell could power a handset for 10 hours (talk time, standby time?), twice as long as rechargeable batteries."When the handset is turned on, metal and water in the phone react to produce hydrogen gas," explained Oh Yong-soo, vice president of Samsung Electro-Mechanics' research center. "The gas is then supplied to the fuel cell where it reacts with oxygen in the air to generate power. Other fuel cells need methanol to produce hydrogen, while Samsung's needs only water.""...
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Release of .NET Compact Framework for Symbian imminent
2007-10-18 13:37:00
Symbian Smartphone Show starts next week (October 16-17, 2007) in London, EU, and while most announcements there will not be related to Windows Mobile, this one is! With .NET Compact Framework for Symbian that is being developed by Red Five Labs company from South Africa, it will be possible to run .NET applications for Windows Mobile also inside of Symbian phones. The compatibility level however is probably only .NET CF 1.1 or 1.0 (while current Windows Mobile has .NET CF 2.0 pre-installed in ROM) and unfortunately still no download is available... to prove that this whole software is not just a vaporware...Information fromn Red Five Labs follows.* * * * *Red Five Labs to announce the launch of the public beta program for Net60, the first-ever commercial .NET Compact Framework implementation for S60 devicesRed Five Labs, is to announce the beta release of Net60, its ground breaking implementation of the .NET Compact Framework running on S60 3rd edition devices.Net60 enables managed...
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Google increases Gmail storage
2007-10-18 13:21:00
Google has announced that the free online storage for Gmail will increase gradually in the next days.As of October 23th, users will get 4321MB of storage, and from January 4th next year, will see 6283MB of storage.After that users will receive 3.3MB every day, which is apparently 10 times larger than the current rate of growth.Google Apps mail accounts will have the same quota as standard Gmail accounts, while Google Apps Premier Edition will have 25GB mail accounts, compared to 2GB and 10GB previously."In April 2005, we started increasing Gmail storage as part of our "Infinity+1" storage plan. At that time, we realized we'd never reach infinity, but we promised to keep giving Gmail users more space as we were able," says the Gmail Blog.Yahoo and Microsoft have recently increased the online storage they offer, so it appears as if Google, once the market leader in the area, has moved to catch up.source:Pocket-lint
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OS X v10.5 Leopard Available October 26, Pre-order Today!
2007-10-17 07:06:00
Back in April, Apple announced a delay from June to October for the next version of its operating system due to needs of the iPhone program. Well, October has finally arrived. The company says that OS X v10.5, which is now expected to ship on October 26, contains over 300 new features and “installs easily, and works with the software and accessories you already have.” Some of the highlighted features include a revamped desktop, a new Finder which includes Cover Flow technology, Quick Look which gives full-scale previews of documents before opening them and Time Machine which creates incremental backups of files.A single-user license costs just $129.00 direct from Apple while a five-user license will set you back just $199.00. Customers who pre-order OS X v10.5 today from Apple are guaranteed to have their copy on their doorstep on October 26. Source: DailyTech
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Any Audio Converter
2007-10-15 10:35:00
Any Audio Converter is designed for extracting audios from videos and converting audios between popular formats, such as WMV, MP4, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, MP3, M4A, MP2, etc. With Any Audio Converter, you can convert audio between MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC and OGG as well as video files including AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, ASF, etc to popular audio files, e.g. convert MP4 to MP3.The user-friendly interface of Any Audio Converter lets you add and convert any unprotected audios and videos to MP3, WMA, AAC and OGG easily. Most work can be done automatically with a few mouse clicks. All conversions are very easy to handle with super fast speed. You can convert many files in batches regardless of their source formats. Any Audio Converter also supports playback of all the audio files with its built-in player. If you want to convert wma to mp3, convert mp3 to AAC, convert MP4 to MP3 or if you need to save a sound segment from VIDEO for some reasons, Any Audio Converter is exactly what you are looking for.S...
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Microsofts gets patient for it's new Mobile User Interface
2007-10-15 09:47:00
Evey patient is an innovation so its a new innovation from Microsoft, the new UI for Windows Mobile ! The Windows Mobile touchscreen interface is ready for single-hand use, the United States Patent and Trademark Office yesterday unveiled a patent which was given to Microsoft (Application Number: 11/765,684). Title of the patent: "Extensible Filtered Lists for Mobile Device User Interface " which is about systems and methods for providing an improved user interface for mobile devices (smartphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the like are explicitly stated in the patent specification). Access to data and services from multiple software applications can be provided through a group or list of items. Each group or list can include multiple items, which can be associated with data or tasks from multiple applications.Briefly described, the provided subject matter concerns an improved user interface for mobile devices such as smartphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the ...
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Eid Mubarak!
2007-10-15 09:17:00
Eid-ul-Fitar Mubarak from Technobuddy. Wishing you a very very happy Eid day and a pray for all who are not amoung us this Eid, May Allah bless us all!On this occasion we must not forget the poor and hungry, we must help them to enjoy the most blessing and happy event of nature. Allah loves those who love thier fellow men and real happiness is in helping others to celebrate and celebrate among them. I wish everyday in my life is like Eid mornings! Its a real pleasure and coolness to eyes waking up for fajar prayers at Eid morning. Once again Eid Mubarak !E-Card/Image Source: Sakkal

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Beta released analysis (The final SP)
2007-10-09 21:41:00
Its not that unofficial one that fools people to be real service pack. The official Service Pack 3 Beta is officially here now. As Microsoft said it will say bye bye to Windows XP in 2008 to promote Windows Vista, so this is the last official Service Pack for Windows XP. This release, also shipped as windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu.exe, is 334.2 megabytes and has been made available to tier-one Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 beta testersIt contains only patches and hotfixes most of them backported from Windows Vista:New Windows Product Activation model: no need to enter product key during setup.Network Access Protection modules and policies have been brought to XP after being one of the more-well-received features in Windows Vista.New Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Module - the Windows XP SP3 kernel now includes an entire module that provides easy access to multiple cryptographic algorithms and is available for use in kernel-mode drivers and services.New “Black Hole...
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Use PHP in Visual Studio 2005
2007-10-09 03:32:00
IPhp is one of the most popular languages for developing web applications. In fact, the Php community has the largest pool of rich open source applications, frameworks and resources to make your development life easier. VS.Php lets those who enjoy using Visual Studio use their favorite IDE for Php development. VS.Php also provides many unique features by leveraging the Visual Studio IDE like Php/Javascript debugging.VS.Php is a Php integrated development environment based on Visual Studio. With VS.Php you can design, develop, debug and deploy Php applications within the Visual Studio IDE. VS.Php key features are around providing rich Php and Smarty editing capabilities as well as its ability to debug Php scripts locally as well as remotely.VS.Php offers a set of productivity features designed to improve productivity. The new 2.3 release offers many improvements around working on remote projects including remote access, importing and improved deployment.link:Php IDE - VS.Php for Visu...
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Zune 30 will be updated to all features of new Zunes (unlike Apple do)
2007-10-07 12:45:00
Microsoft has taken a fresh approach in updating its mp3 lineup. They are not actually trying to replace the original Zune (called as Zune 30) but are actually adding new variety to their lineup. Now what does this actually means is that the current zune owners who bought Zune 30 will get all the new features (yes all of them) of Zune 4, Zune 8 and Zune 80 through a firmware upgrade. This is something which Apple has failed to deliver for their loyal iPod users. Whenever a new iPod was released, the older versions didn't get any new updates or the features of the newer models which left their loyal users with no option but to spend more bucks and get the new device.In what I consider to be a classy move, Microsoft is imbuing each Zune device with exactly the same features. (And yes, this includes the original Zune 30, which will require a software update.) So if you have bought a Zune last year doesn't mean you're out of luck. What a concept.Updates for Zune 30 will include:>The ...
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Ig Nobel Award Winners Announced
2007-10-07 11:45:00
Every year, we salute a select and elite group of scientists, artists, writers, and peace activists who, through extraordinary accomplishment, have bettered humanity. These...are not those people. Instead, the Ig Nobel Prize, a parody of the Nobel Prize, is awarded to the zanier side of science, things which, according to the founders of the Ig Nobel Prize, "make people laugh and then make them think." This year's winners have been announced, and highlights include:Medicine: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, for their penetrating medical report "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects." Apparently the most common side effect is "sore throat."Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla fragrance and flavoring -- from cow dung. I was going to say something funny about this, but there's really not much more you can do.Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon ...
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.net open source!
2007-10-05 21:01:00
A great step taken, Microsoft just anounced that Visual Studio 2008 will come with viewable source libraries of .net 3.5 frame work. The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL).Everyone will be able to download the .NET Framework source libraries via a standalone install (allowing to use any text editor to browse it locally). We will also provide integrated debugging support of it within VS 2008.References/Links:ASP Blog entry
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Zune 2
2007-10-03 07:42:00
Microsoft tells about new Zune s 2 that will hit stores in mid November.There will be an 80GB hard drive model, similar to the original Zune models, but packing a larger 3.2-inch QVGA screen, and a slimmer case design.Smaller 4GB and 8GB flash-based models are also on the way to go compete effectively with the iPod Nano. All three new models are with the 4GB retailing for $149, the 8GB for $199 and the 80GB for just $249.Additional details which have surfaced include automatic sync-over-WiFi capability (Apple, are you listening?), and a DRM-free music store (surprise!) As an added bonus to Zune early adopters, the original model (now known as the “Zune 30″) will get a firmware update to match the features of the newer models.Additionaol information reaveals that the new zune has automatic sync-over-WiFi capability and a DRM-free music storeAs an added bonus to Zune early adopters, the original model (now known as the “Zune 30″) will get a firmware update to match the features...